BEAN, Benning Moulton, a Representative from New Hampshire;
born in Moultonboro, Carroll County, N.H., on January 9, 1782;
attended the public schools of Moultonboro and received private tutoring;
engaged in teaching and in agricultural pursuits;
selectman of Moultonboro 1811-1829 and 1832-1838;
justice of the peace in 1816;
trustee of Sandwich Academy in 1824;
member of the State house of representatives 1815-1823;
served in the State senate 1824-1826;
again a member of the State house of representatives in 1827;
member of the Governors council in 1829;
again served in the State senate in 1831 and 1832, being president the latter year;
elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837);
declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836;
resumed teaching and agricultural pursuits in Moultonboro, Carroll County, N.H., where he died February 6, 1866;
interment in Bean Cemetery.